Employing the Conservation Design Approach on Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Coastal Avian Habitats along the Central Texas Coast

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dc.contributorMission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserveen
dc.creatorSmith, Elizabeth H.en
dc.creatorChavez-Ramirez, Felipeen
dc.creatorLumb, Luzen
dc.creatorGibeaut, Jamesen
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-23T19:07:50Zen
dc.date.available2015-10-23T19:07:50Zen
dc.date.issued2014-06en
dc.descriptionFinal reporten
dc.description.abstractThe Gulf Coast Prairie LCC (GCPLCC) encompasses one of the most diverse ecoregions in the United States and into Mexico, encompassing 121 million acres with 500 species of birds in four ecoregions (Figure 1) (Bartush 2013). Declines in habitat quantity and quality as well as fragmentation of once-contiguous native habitats threaten to impact biological diversity and ecosystem health. In a recent assessment of the Gulf Coast Prairie ecoregion, 6% is managed by federal and state agencies and 8.3% by county, nongovernmental and other entities. The remainder of the landscape is owned and managed privately, a practice that has been honored for multiple generations (TNC 2002). As urban and industrial development continues to convert native habitats to development areas, the potential impacts from climate change are converting emergent and submergent habitat types to open water. The low-lying areas along the coast provide a narrow fringe of productive coastal environments that fulfill the ecological requirements for a broad diversity of coastal species. Broad-scale habitat loss and degradation has resulted in the decline of many species’ populations. This issue is of particular concern when the key component of a species’ life cycle is dependent on these coastal environments.en
dc.description.departmentMarine Scienceen
dc.description.sponsorshipInternational Crane Foundation Meadows Foundation (EHS) Gulf Coast Bird Observatory (FCR) NOAA Environmental Cooperative Science Center (LL) Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (JG) Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative Contract GCPLCC 2012(2)en
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2XG89en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/31918en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.relation.ispartofMSI Technical Reportsen
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen
dc.subjectsea-level riseen
dc.subjectconservation designen
dc.subjectavian habitaten
dc.subjectcentral Texas coasten
dc.subjectTexasen
dc.titleEmploying the Conservation Design Approach on Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Coastal Avian Habitats along the Central Texas Coasten
dc.typeTechnical reporten

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